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A review by dangilman
The Cipher by Kathe Koja
3.0
Amazing book! The characters are all too real, pitiful and distasteful, simple and complex. The monotonous but safe daily grind meeting the unknowing sheer terror that is a void.
Honestly if you break down the book, and I feel this is where I struggled with it at times... Is that you are the main character, and boy howdy does Nicholas think. He's not usually a man of action, but he can run circles around the drain swirl of his descent into his own contemplations.
Its not a bitch, he's made real by his vices, his loves and his inability to turn that shit off when he wants to. I can absolutely sympathize with him on so many levels that it's easy to see myself in his shoes... Terrifying as a realization as that is given that most people would shelve this book under horror or cosmic-horror.
One of the things I loved most about the writing here is usually what I despise about this writing style which is very similar to Stephen King's if you ask me (and you didn't), is where I am maddened by King's full length novels for Peter Pan flights into meandering minutia... Koja's held my attention throughout. Even Koja's characters got annoyed by the small talk and beating around the bush.
I absolutely adored this book!
Honestly if you break down the book, and I feel this is where I struggled with it at times... Is that you are the main character, and boy howdy does Nicholas think. He's not usually a man of action, but he can run circles around the drain swirl of his descent into his own contemplations.
Its not a bitch, he's made real by his vices, his loves and his inability to turn that shit off when he wants to. I can absolutely sympathize with him on so many levels that it's easy to see myself in his shoes... Terrifying as a realization as that is given that most people would shelve this book under horror or cosmic-horror.
One of the things I loved most about the writing here is usually what I despise about this writing style which is very similar to Stephen King's if you ask me (and you didn't), is where I am maddened by King's full length novels for Peter Pan flights into meandering minutia... Koja's held my attention throughout. Even Koja's characters got annoyed by the small talk and beating around the bush.
I absolutely adored this book!